Leslie Casey joined the America East staff as the Assistant Director of Communications in August, 2007, and is currently the Associate Director for Communications/PR.

Casey serves as the conference’s primary media and sports information contact for field hockey, volleyball, women’s basketball, baseball and women's lacrosse. She assists in the conference’s awards program and coordinates one of the most broad-based academic awards program in the country. Casey also serves as media coordinator for conference championships, and is the main sport administrator for the sport of field hockey.

Casey is the editor of the America East women’s basketball media guide and preseason prospectus. She also designs and produces various marketing materials, posters and web site graphics for conference events. Casey has played an integral role in the development and execution of the league's social media plan.

Prior to arriving at America East, Casey worked in the Boston College Athletics Department during 2006-07 as a media relations assistant. She was the sports information contact for the nationally-ranked field hockey and women’s ice hockey teams, and the women’s lacrosse program, producing media guides and game notes for each of those sports and reaching out to the appropriate media to promote the teams. Casey served as the media relations director for the 2007 Women’s Beanpot Tournament at Conte Forum and coordinated the Eagles’ media relations efforts for the 2007 Women’s Frozen Four in Lake Placid.

Casey also served in communications roles during stints at Basketball Ireland in Dublin, Ireland and New England Sports Network in Watertown, Massachusetts, and is a member of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

As a student assistant in the Boston University Athletics Department’s marketing communications office from 2003-06, Casey worked under longtime Sports Information Director Ed Carpenter. In addition to office duties as assigned, she was responsible for keeping in-game statistics for home men’s and women’s ice hockey games as well as the 2003 and 2004 Beanpot Tournaments at the TD BankNorth Garden.

Casey is a 2006 graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication from where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications with a concentration in public relations and a minor in sociology. She was a member of the Public Relations Student Society of America as well as a sports staff member at WTBU, Boston University’s student-run radio station, providing live in-studio analysis of ice hockey and basketball games, and writing and delivering sports flashes.

Originally hailing from Londonderry, N.H., Casey now resides in Watertown, Mass. with her husband.